Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has warned there will be a “big fight” in former President Donald Trump’s orbit over the possibility he will choose Nikki Haley as his running mate should he clinch the Republican presidential nomination.
Haley’s selection for slot No. 2 on the GOP ticket will be “one of the fights we’re going to have — a big fight that’s going to happen in the spring,” Bannon predicted Monday while speaking on the ” Human Events Daily Program.”
“They’re going to try to force Nikki to get a ticket,” he told host Jack Posobiec. “They’ll say ‘Trump needs a woman, Nikki on the ticket, she balances everything and she can muster the 15% of Trump that never Trumped in the Republican Party.’ We will have to have that fight.
“If Nikki Haley is in this administration in any capacity, it will fail,” Bannon added. “He’s a poisonous snake. He’s a viper and once he gets in there, he’ll try to run it as prime minister. He’s going to try to be Dick Cheney. He will be to Trump what Dick Cheney was to Bush. That’s what he’s going to try to do.”
Speculation swirled about whether Haley would accept the offer to be the 77-year-old’s running mate after serving as ambassador to the United Nations for 23 months during the Trump administration.
Haley, 51, has tried to keep the focus on her current campaign, insisting that she is not running “for second.” However, he did not explicitly rule out the possibility of being Trump’s VP pick.
Steve Bannon speaks as conservative leaders and personalities attend Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona, US REUTERS
Others close to Trump — including his son Don Jr. – also spoke out against putting Haley on the 2024 ticket.
“I’m not going to have that and I’m going to work hard to make sure that doesn’t happen,” the younger Trump told Newsmax’s Eric Bolling in an interview last month.
“Nikki Haley wants endless war,” Trump Jr. added. “He is a puppet of the establishment in Washington, DC. He is the new favorite candidate of the billionaire class because they want control— not unlike academia and Harvard and use their billions to exert influence.”
Nikki Haley recently surpassed Ron DeSantis as the No. 1 candidate. 2 GOP, but still lags more than 50 points behind Trump in the national polling average. AP
Former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, another Trump ally, has also expressed strong opposition to Haley.
“Not only will I not vote for that ticket, I will support it as strongly as I can,” Carlson told podcaster Tim Pool in December.
Meanwhile, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has said he would advise Trump to pick Haley as his running mate, noting that she secured the “anti-Trump vote” in the Republican primary.
Donald Trump has led the GOP field by more than 50 points on average. Reuters
Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, also seems open to the idea.
“Crazier things have happened,” he told Newsmax last month about a possible Trump-Haley ticket. “I will never say never to Donald J. Trump.”
The former South Carolina governor has said that “chaos” and “drama” follow Trump and will limit his effectiveness if he is elected president again. However, he also said he would forgive him if he was in the Oval Office.
The Trump camp has stepped up its attacks on Haley as polls show her gaining on him in early states.
The former president has repeatedly called Haley “bird brain” while an allied super PAC, MAGA Inc., recently launched an ad in New Hampshire attacking her for proposing to raise South Carolina’s gas tax while governor of the state, before supporting repeal of the federal gas tax during her campaign. now.
The Trump and Haley campaigns did not immediately respond to inquiries from The Post.
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